Nobody would have conceived that an edgewise gripe of such a mass of metal could derange its form in this way.

You see, my father and mother were dead, and if I went to the bottom there was nobody, as you might say, to feel it; but it's different now, sir, you see.'

What do you play on, and who taught you?' 'Nobody teached me, Mr. Jack,' he said; 'I teached my own self.' 'Teached your own self?

As to Harry, he had the good fortune to be taken notice of by nobody except Mr. Merton, who received him with great cordiality, and a Miss Simmons, who had been brought up by an uncle who endeavoured, by a hardy and robust education, to prevent in his niece that sickly delicacy which is considered so great an ornament in fashionable life.

We were carried into Lisbon, and there my master, the only friend I had in the world, dying of his wounds, I was left starving in a foreign country where I knew nobody, and could not speak a word of the language.

If I make nothing, as [3560]Montaigne said in like case, I will mar nothing; 'tis not my doctrine but my study, I hope I shall do nobody wrong to speak what I think, and deserve not blame in imparting my mind.

Chapter II Nobody sympathised with Mary Jane.

I said that even if they had seen ghosts, this was no proof at all; nobody believes that there are red rats, though there is plenty of first-hand evidence of men having seen them in delirium.

Nobody looked at Leothric as he entered through the hole in the door, but one of the Princes asked a question of a footman, and the question was passed from mouth to mouth by all the hundred footmen till it came to the last one nearest Leothric; and he said to Leothric, without looking at him: 'What do you seek here?'

It was in the early afternoon, and nobody was about.

It allus makes 'em skeery; for there ain't nobody that wants to be cut and hacked to pieces, ef they be dead, as them red devils have sarved that poor Mexican, sartin.

I asked him where he came from, and where his folks was, and how they come ter leave him alone on the plains, with nobody to look out for and take care of him; but he only shook his head, and looked up into my face so piteous and sorrowful like, that I felt my heart go right out to him.

Nobody would have hurt you if you had put us on the right track and asked for a little help.

Naturally he sought the counsel of Domina Lucrezia, than whom nobody understood better the men of Florence, their manners and their moods.

Excellence raises many men to the level of the gods, but nobody ever yet was made a god by show of hands.

'When I gave Steadman permission to shelter his aged kinsman in my house, I made it a condition that the old man should be kept in the strictest care by himself and his wife, and that nobody in this establishment should be troubled by him.

'Yes, indeed, grandmother,' exclaimed Mary, whose vivid imagination conjured up a vision of padded cells, strait-waist-coats, murderously-inclined keepers, chains, handcuffs, and bread and water diet, 'now I understand why the poor old soul has been kept so closewhy nobody knows of his existence.

Yet nobody could accuse Lady Kirkbank of intemperate habits.

Mr. Smithson had been in Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, all over civilised Europe during the last five weeks, whether on business or on pleasure bent, nobody knew.

And now Lady Kirkbank told Lesbia that this Mr. Smithson, a nobody with a great fortune, was a man whose addresses she, the sister of Lord Maulevrier, ought to welcome.

'Let us see now,' and she tapped her forehead with a gold thimble which nobody had ever seen her use, but which looked respectable.

Nobody could help laughing, or be inclined to take offence at his harmless absurdities.

"You see, as I have nobody to ask, I ask nobody.

"You see, as I have nobody to ask, I ask nobody.

Since Gianluca was apparently willing to accept the position and to be her friend, it was nobody's affair but his and hers.